I’m vaugely familliar with SDLC but it’s comming up more and more in my job.
Can anyone give me a good overview or point me to a good resource?
I hate it when acronyms shift.
I was all ready to start talking about synchronous modems, conditioned and dial-up lines, and other things associated with Synchronous Data Link Control when it suddenly occurred to me that you were probably not talking about old IBM communication protocols.
Sorry I don’t know anything about System Development Life Cycle (which shows you I’m an old fashioned software developer), but it sounds like something I should learn about.
I’ll be interested in the information in this thread.
Does the S stand for software or system? Wiki’s got a passable article for the former and not a whole lot for the latter.
But why shouldn’t we talk about data-link layer (DLL) protocols? What with their mischevious flag-sharing and worse yet, their single 0-bit sharing. Who do they think they are? And as for SDLC, no CRC-CCITT-16 is not good enough for you! No, you need to detect stuck zeros more than stuck ones, so you have to initialize your FCS to F0F8h so that it ends up all zeros. Upitty SDLC…think your better than HDLC.